Quotes About Dirty Politics

#1. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd

#2. I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Steven Seagal

#3. politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.

Dave Robinson

#4. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

Anita Loos

#5. A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

Richard Reeves

#6. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

#7. You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

Scott Lynch

#8. Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.

John Grisham

#9. It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Tom Cotton

#11. Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.

Evan Williams

#12. Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Will Shetterly

#13. Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Jon Meacham

#14. Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work.

Bernard Cornwell

#15. The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

Norman Podhoretz

#16. Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer - I don't.

Matt Hasselbeck

#17. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

John Steinbeck

#18. Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things ... My conscience is clear.

Johannes Heesters

#19. We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

Ali Suliman

#20. We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Ciaran Hinds

#21. I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Richard M. Nixon

#22. the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Albert Einstein

#23. Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.

John Webster

#24. We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

Eric Liu

#25. It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Robert Kennedy

#26. Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

James Dobson

#27. I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

#28. I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

Charles Bukowski

#29. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

#30. How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

Will Durst

#31. Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

David Baldacci

#32. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

George Papandreou

#33. Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.

Edmund Morris

#34. The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

Ray Davies